Hi Paul, That helps quite a lot, so thank you very much for the help. Asher Smith may well be the father - maybe Jacob was baptised elsewhere. I will take a look on FamilySearch to see if I can find those other children. Cheers, Kind Regards, Jill -----Original Message----- From: berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Paul Betteridge Sent: 11 August 2011 21:40 To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRK] Jacob SMITH born Berkshire 1806 Dear Jill, > I am trying to help a cousin with a spot of research and have Jacob SMITH > born Berkshire in 1841 East Hendred, Berkshire census. By the 1851 census > his wife Hannah is a widow. Jacob is shown as buried East Hendred 1843 aged > 37 years. Given that Hannah SMITH and her distinctively named son Shadrach were born in Sutton Courtenay, I wondered if it would be worth looking for a Smith marrying a Hannah ?? there. And in fact, there is one - from the Oxfordshire FHS transcript: 19 April 1834, Jocab (sic) SMITH of Sotwell married Hannah DENTON. (witnesses Ralph DENTON and W Herring, who witnessed every marriage.) There's a Sarah DENTON with the family in East Hendred in 1841. However, I can't see a baptism for Jacob Smith at Sotwell, or Brightwell, or Wallingford St Leonard. There is an "Asher Smith" baptising children at Brightwell who gave almost all his children "Old Testament" names, but not a Jacob among them. So things have only moved a little way. Best wishes Paul -- Paul Betteridge, Leafield, Oxfordshire pbetteridge@pobox.com